Well, hell. I so wanted Mariah Yeater’s story about Justin Bieber to be true.

I mean, come on. Look at that face! Doesn’t she look like a nice, honest girl?

Instead, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Yeater, who claims the Biebs fathered her baby after a filthy backstage tryst, is exactly what everyone assumed she was from the start — a trashy little gold-digging liar.

The latest proof? A male friend has texts from her asking him to erase earlier messages from her mother talking about an ex of Mariah’s being the infant’s babydaddy.

(Did you get all that?)

Mariah then promises to pay the friend for his cooperation when she cashes in on her lie, saying, “Ill kick u when we get paid.”

Her friend either has a conscience or got a better offer, because he’s given the texts to Howard Weitzman, the Biebs’ lawyer, who told TMZ:

“This information proves Mariah Yeater fabricated the story. Our independent investigation indicates Ms. Yeater never met Justin, she has consistently identified another man as the child’s father, and Ms. Yeater and her co-conspirators hatched this scheme in order to extort money from him and to sell her story to the media … There have been no settlement discussions and there never will be.”